Titanic and Liverpool

Author: Alan Scarth
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846312221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
If you had been behind the Titanic on that fateful night in 1912, the last word that flashed before your eyes as the great ship was lost to the sea would have been 'Liverpool'. The ship's loss, a national and international tragedy, was also a tragedy for its home port and this fascinating book explores the history and myths surrounding the sinking, highlighting for the first time new and extraordinary stories that link Europe's pre-eminent port and its most famous maritime loss. Using material from the White Star line archives, the extensive holdings of the Merseyside Maritime Museum, new illustrations and a variety of historical sources, Scarth unearths the full back story of key characters and companies: many of her key officers and crew were either from Liverpool or had strong links with the port, the ship's owners were based in the City, many of the most colourful tales emerging from the disaster relate to Liverpool people and here, where appropriate, we find out what happened to them after the sinking. Titanic and Liverpool will be compulsory reading for anyone interested in the Titanic and also for anyone hoping to understand Liverpool's role as the great processing port of Europe and gateway to the US and Canada.

Rescuing Titanic

Author: Flora Delargy
Publisher: Hidden Histories
ISBN: 0711262764
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79

Book Description
Rescuing Titanic tells with exquisite illustrations and richly detailed text the story of the Carpathia and its heroic journey rescuing passengers from the Titanic.

I Died on the Titanic

Author: Monica O'Hara-Keeton
Publisher: Pharaoh Press
ISBN: 9780907768869
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
An incredible true-life story that must be read to be believed. The author had had a lifelong fear of deep, dark, still water and didn't know why. Her husband, an internationally-famed hypnotherapist, began her on a treatment of hypnotic regression. What she discovered shocked and amazed her: In a past life, she was on board the ill-fated RMS Titanic!

The Midnight Watch

Author: David Dyer
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466893087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
As the Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the SS Californian sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the Titanic fired. He alerted the captain, Stanley Lord, who was sleeping in the chartroom below, but Lord did not come to the bridge. Eight rockets were fired during the dark hours of the midnight watch, and eight rockets were ignored. The next morning, the Titanic was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. When they learned of the extent of the tragedy, Lord and Stone did everything they could to hide their role in the disaster, but pursued by newspapermen, lawyers, and political leaders in America and England, their terrible secret was eventually revealed. The Midnight Watch is a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on the SS Californian, and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction. Told not only from the perspective of the SS Californian crew, but also through the eyes of a family of third-class passengers who perished in the disaster, the narrative is drawn together by Steadman, a tenacious Boston journalist who does not rest until the truth is found. David Dyer's The Midnight Watch is a powerful and dramatic debut novel--the result of many years of research in Liverpool, London, New York, and Boston, and informed by the author's own experiences as a ship's officer and a lawyer.

The Titanic Disaster Hearings

Author: William Alden Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671025538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description
Merely a day afterTitanicsurvivors arrived in port in New York City, a United States Senate committee began an investigation into the wreck of the great "unsinkable" ship. For the first time in book form, here is the dramatic testimony of crew and passengers from all walks of life, as they recall the sights and sounds of the night of April 14, 1912.From the manners of the day to the conduct fo those boarding the lifeboats, from acts of kindness to palpable greed, here is an unforgettable portrait of human nature in the face of theTitanictragedy, in the words of the men and women who survived....J. Bruce Ismay,British officer of the White Star Line, who hopped into a lifeboat to save himself and never looked back to see her go down....Second officerCharles Lightoller'sharrowing plunge as the sinking ship's force of suction pulled him under water....On-duty lookoutFrederick Fleet'sadmission that the iceberg might have been avoided if the crew had been equipped with binoculars....PassengerDaisy Minahan,who recalled the refusal of an officer in her lifeboat to aid those adrift in the frigid waters...and many more witnesses to one of the most shattering events of our century. Illustrated with historical photographs, TheTitanic Disaster Hearingsis a vital piece of the puzzle that has sparked worldwide fascination.

Titanic

Author: Philip Wilkinson
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 1429675276
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Chronicles the history, inner workings, passengers, sinking, and impact of the legendary liner.

The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold?

Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781573922012
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Believers in paranormal powers of precognition have long maintained that the sinking of the Titanic was perceived in advance by extrasensory perception (ESP). Their prize example is Morgan Robertson's sea novel, The Wreck of the Titan, published 14 years before the Titanic went down. This unusual short novel is reproduced here in full, along with a selection of other writings that seem to foretell the Titanic's fate.

Sea Liverpool

Author: Adrian Jarvis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780951170366
Category : Marine painting, British
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912 (Dear America)

Author: Ellen Emerson White
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545415012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description
One of the most popular Dear America diaries of all time, Ellen Emerson White's bestselling VOYAGE ON THE GREAT TITANIC is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Five years ago, Margaret Ann Brady's older brother left her in the care of an orphanage and immigrated to America. When the orphanage receives an unusual request from an American woman looking for a traveling companion, Margaret's teachers agree that she is the perfect candidate to accompany Mrs. Carstairs on the TITANIC, so that once Margaret arrives in New York she will be free to join her brother in Boston. But the TITANIC is destined for tragedy, and Margaret's journey is thrown into a frozen nightmare when the ship collides with an iceberg.

Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything

Author: Kevin Cook
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393080595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
Capturing the spirit of a freewheeling era, this rollicking biography brings to life the gambler-hero who inspired Guys and Dolls. Born in a log cabin in the Ozarks, Alvin "Titanic" Thompson (1892-1974) traveled with his golf clubs, a .45 revolver, and a suitcase full of cash. He won and lost millions playing cards, dice, golf, pool, and dangerous games of his own invention. He killed five men and married five women, each one a teenager on her wedding day. He ruled New York's underground craps games in the 1920s and was Damon Runyon's model for slick-talking Sky Masterson. Dominating the links in the pre-PGA Tour years, Thompson may have been the greatest golfer of his time, teeing up with Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Lee Trevino, and Ray Floyd. He also traded card tricks with Houdini, conned Al Capone, lost a million to Minnesota Fats and then teamed up with Fats and won it all back. A terrific read for anyone who has ever laid a bet, Titanic Thompson recaptures the colorful times of a singular figure: America's original road gambler.